Re: LVROM titles produced?
- From: Jules <julesrichardsonuk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 17:59:55 +0000
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 12:37:54 +0100, Michiel wrote:
> Jules wrote:
>> On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 20:08:24 +0100, Michiel wrote:
>>> Standing here is a BBC Master with trackball and LVROM drive,
>> Hmmm... noticed your email address... didn't Philips originate in the
>> Netherlands? In which case perhaps there's some interesting history to
>> your machine if that's where you've found it (I can't imagine there are
>> many Domesday systems outside the UK, anyway)
>
> Yes, the machine is outside the UK in the Netherlands. It did not came
> from Philips itself, but from a related company. Unfortunately it looks
> like the Domesday discs that were with the machine are lost.
That happens all to often unfortunately - software / manuals get stored
seperately from hardware and they get split up over time :(
> I've tried a few laserdiscs/laservisions in the VP415. Some get
> rejected right away, on another I get a running counter (frames?) on the
> TV screen and another gives static on the audio.
At some point I seem to remember that the audio encoding format for the
discs changed, so you won't get any audio if you try and play a modern
disc in the machine.
Video should still work regardless of disc age I think - do you get video
output with any of them?
> Should it play regular laserdiscs? And with only the
player connected,
> would it output video via the scart or do I have to connect something to
> the genlock or change some settings?
You should be able to play discs even without the BBC connected - you
only need to hook up the BBC's video to the genlock in the player if
you want to mix the video output from the BBC with that coming from the
disc.
Now, going from memory, the player will only provide mixed video on the
composite video pin of the SCART connector; it *won't* do it on the
SCART's RGB lines and they just carry normal video output from the disc.
Something to keep in mind if you ever get everything working, as 99% of
computer monitors with a SCART connector will only accept signals from the
RGB lines and don't decode composite.
TVs I think generally have two SCART sockets, but likely only one of those
will decode composite video too and the other's RGB only.
> It looks unlikely that I'll be able to find the discs here, so I guess
> I'll have to keep an eye on Ebay.co.uk, how regular do these things show
> up there?
Someone else can answer that one - I've never used EBay in my life :-) I'm
sure they do turn up there from time to time.
cheers
Jules
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